{"id":457,"date":"2010-05-08T23:24:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T14:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2010-05-08T23:27:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T14:27:20","slug":"alabaster-revenant-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Alabaster &#8211; Revenant EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z193\/plasmadancer_2007\/mcrs004_2.jpg\" align=\"top\" height=\"250\" width=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was meaning to post about <a href=\"http:\/\/sound.jp\/ariaster\/rev_ep.html\">Alabaster&#8217;s latest two-track EP<\/a> a few days ago, but I hadn&#8217;t heard the full versions of the tunes. That&#8217;s all sorted now, as Alabaster very kindly gave me a promo CD at last night&#8217;s NRGetic Romancer.<\/p>\n<p>The first track on the CD, <em>Tungsten<\/em>, shows off his slower style while keeping the brilliant Grimsoul-style synths that he&#8217;s perfected lately. The breakdown brings in a classic Alabaster melody that rolls along with some nice acidy sounds at about 150bpm.<\/p>\n<p><em>Revenant <\/em>is a real stormer of a track, with the usual lovely filtered synths and a great pace about it &#8211; as soon as I heard this one I could imagine it working perfectly on a dancefloor. As well as being some of Alabaster&#8217;s best work, it might even be one of the best freeform tunes I&#8217;ve heard anywhere in the last few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was meaning to post about Alabaster&#8217;s latest two-track EP a few days ago, but I hadn&#8217;t heard the full versions of the tunes. That&#8217;s all sorted now, as Alabaster very kindly gave me a promo CD at last night&#8217;s NRGetic Romancer. The first track on the CD, Tungsten, shows off his slower style while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese","category-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}